Fastener for barbers&#39; hair cloths and the like



Jain. 5 1926. g 1,568,819

J. FAVATA, JR

FASTENER FOR BARBRS HAIR CLOTH AND THE LIKE Filed July 21, 1925 7 5 7 IZz/a'iag, (Ya Mm Patented Jan. 5, 1926.

UNITED STATES PA E T OFFICE. I

IJ'OSEQPH FAVATA, m, or scrum, NEW Yoax.

rAsTENEa roa BARBERS 1mm onoriis AND THE IKE.

Application filed July 21, 1923. Serial No. 652,926.

simple and convenient device for such pur-" pose which is at all times retained on the hair cloth and whereby said cloth can be conveniently fastened around the neck'of a person having his hair cut.

Another object of my invention is to pro- J vide a device of this kind which can be stamped out of a single piece of flexible material capable of being bent into the desired form and retained in such form and 1 wherein theinherent resiliency of the material from which it is constructed is depended upon to retain the overlapping portions of a hair cloth in position around the neck of a person having his hair out.

A further object of my invention is to.

provide a device'of this kind which has a comparatively flat inner or neck-bearing "surface so that abrasion of the skin is avoided and so that a comfortable feeling is given the applied. a

With the above and other objects in view, 7 the invention consists in the novel features of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the subjoined claims. 1

In the drawings v 1 Fig. 1 is a view showing the manner in which the fastener is used on a, person having a hair cloth placed around him tory to cutting the hair.

prepara- Fig. 2 is-a perspective view'of the blank 7 fromwhich the fastener is constructed.

Fig. 3 is an elevation ofthe fastener in completed form." I

Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal section taken on line 4-4, Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse section taken on line 5-5, Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged transverse Section taken 01. line ;6-fi, Fig. 3,.

person to whom the device is Fig. 7 is a perspective viewof a modified construction of the device viewed from the inner side. 7 M

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of said modified construction view from the outer side.

Fig. 9 is a transverse sectiontaken on a.

plane passing through the outer retainer flap of said modified construction.

The device isformedof resilient material,

and in preferred form is constructed of a blank, such as shown in Fig.2 in which an or flaps 11, 12 extending laterally therefrom at opposite'ends and atfone edge thereof. Each of said ears has inwardly-diverging incisions 13 formed therein, starting from a common point 14, and the material between said incisions is adapted to be bent at right angles to the blank to form penetrating points, as will appear hereinafter.

The blank is adapted to be bent or curved upon itself along the dotted lines 15, 16, 17 and 18. It is first bent or curved upon itself transversely along the lines 16, 17 so elongated portionlO is provided having ears that a body portion in the form of anelon- Y gated loop 19 is provided having opposite end portions of the blanks lying in contact asat 20, and forming one longitudinal side of theloop. In other words, the loo-p is provided with a double side 21 and a single side 22 connected by the curved ends 23. 'After thus forming the device, the earsll,

12 are bent or curved over the body portion along the dotted lines 15, 18 in Fig. 2, the car 11 being bent over both the double and single sides of the loop or body portion and thence downwardly, as shown in Fig. 5, while the o-ther ear 12 is bent downwardly in an opposite direction over the double side, as shown in Fig. 6, the bent or curved portion of the ear 11 being considerably larger than that of the ear 1 The blank-10, is provided with three perforations 24, 25, 26, and the material be tween the diver mg incisions are bent at right angles to t e ears or flaps, as stated, to form inwardly-projecting pointedprongs or pins 27, 28, respectively. Whenthe car 11 is bent downwardly,the prong or pin 27 thereof will be brought into alinement with the opening 25for1ned in the body portion of the blank, which will, when the blank is bent into shape, be arranged in the single side-of the loop near one end thereof. The

openings 2% and 26 are in registration, and when bending the ear or flap 12 downwardly, the prong 28 thereof will be brought into a-linement with said openings 2% and 26; the prong 27 extending into the loop through the opening 25 in the single side of said loop and the prong 28 extending into the loop through the registering openings 2-1 and 26 in the double side of said loop.

The inherent resiliency of the ears or flaps will tend to maintain the same in contact with the bodyport-ion of the device; thus the prongs or pins thereof are at all times entered in the elongated loop of said body portion and are prevented from coming in contact with the f person having the hair cloth applied thereto, since the pointed extremities of said prongs or pins terminate within the elongated loop of said device.

'hen applying the device to a hair cloth, the ear or flap 12 which extends downwardly transversely of the double side of the loop, as bestshown in Fig. 7, is drawn outwardly, as shown by dotted lines in said figure, to

, enable one endof the hair cloth to he slipped betweensaid double side and said ear or flap, the prong or pin 28 of said ear or flap being drawn from the registering openings in the overlapping parts of said body portion so as to enable the hair cloth to he slipped upwardly in contactwith said bodyportion. \Vhen the hair cloth is properly positioned, said car or fiap- 12 can be released and the inherent resiliency of the same will cause it -to immei'liately ret-urn under pressure against the hair cloth with the result that tlieprong or pin 28 of said ear or flap will penetrate the hair cloth and act to properly attach the device. to said hair cloth.

The device is at all' times retained onthe hair clot-h so that it is simply necessary to place the hair clot-h around a person and lift up the ear or-tlap 11 so that the opposite endof the cloth may he slipped between the flap and the body portion of the device and when so positioned, the flap 11. after being drawn outwardly with t-he'fingers to the position shown withdotted lines in Fig. will immediately return toits normal position, with the result that the prong or pin 27 thereof will penetrate the hair cloth and retain the latter in proper position around the person whose hair is to be. cut, the cloth being drawn tightly around the neck to prevent the hair cut from the person from tall ing between the hair cloth and the neck or body of the person.

In order to remove the haircloth from the person, it is simply necessary to lift up the ear or flap 11 until the prong or pin 27 thereof is withdrawn from the hair cloth. This will allow one end of the cloth to be drawn downwardly out of the device and be swung around to the front of the per son so that the entire cloth can be conveniently removed while retaining the device in secure position at the other end of the hair cloth.

It will be noticed that by the use of the elongated loop construction shown in Fig. l. the prongs or pins are fully protcctczl. In other words, the prone or pin 25' projecting through the single side of the elongated loop has the double side of said loop acting as a guard for the same. while the prong or pin 27 passed through the double side ot the loop has the single side of the loop acting as a guard for the same. In this manner the person on whom the hair cloth i to be applied cannot possibly be injured by the prongs, and since the inner side oi the loop is substantially flat to conform to the neck, it will be quite conifortal'ile when bearing against the neck.

In the modification shown in Figs. 7 to ll). the body portion, designated by the numeral 2 is formed of a single length of material. and at the upper edge thereof it has two cars or flaps 2-30 31 bent outward and. downwardly therefrom, one'of said cars being at each end of the body portion. fiach of the ears. in this modified construction, is provided with a pin or prong. which is adapted to engage the hair cloth in the same manner as described with reference to the preferred construction shown in Figs. 1 to G; and if desired the body portion may have an indentation 32 formed therein in line with one of the prongs or such indentations may be formed in line with both prongs of said ears or flaps, the pointed ends of said; prongs o ypins being entered in the indentations; one of said ears being adapted to-engage one end of the hair cloth and by the use of said ear its prong be retained thereon, while the other car is adapted to engage the other end of the hair cloth. as and in the manner described with refercucc to the two cars or flaps shown in the preferred construction.

The indentation 332 or each of them if two are used, is necessarily formed on one side of the body portion 2t), and consequentlyv at. the opposite side of said body portion the metal thereof is stamped outwardly to form a teat, which may be objectionable when coming in contact with the ncclr. However, as there are other uses for a device ol this kind, such for instance as fastening the ends of. an apron together when placed around the body, the modified conslructimi shown in Figs. 7 to 10 would serve for this purpose fully as well as the preferred construetion shown in Figs. 1 to 6.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim is:-

1. A fastener of the kind described, comprising a body portion and two resilient flaps extending from one edge of said body Ill-3 portion, said flaps being directed transversely and having prongs extending 1nwardly at a right angle therefrom.

2. A fastener of the kind described, comprising an elongated body portion having resilient retainer flaps at opposite ends, said flaps being arranged at the upper edge of said body portion and being directed downwardly therefrom at opposite sides of said body portion, each of said flaps having a retainer prong thereon.

3. A fastener of the kind described, comprising an elongated body portion formed of sheet material bent into the form of an elongated loop and having retainer flaps extending from one side of said loop, one of said flaps being directed outwardly and downwardly from said side and the other being directed inwardly and downwardly over the other side of said loop.

4. A fastener of the kind described formed of an elongated blank having flaps at opposite ends extending from one edge thereof, said blank being bent between its ends into loop formation, opposite end portions of said blank being overlapped and lying in contact with each other, said flaps overlapped and in contact, thus forming an elongated loop, one wall of said loop having retainer flaps extending therefrom, one of said flaps being bent outwardly and downwardly across said side and the other being bent over both sides of said loop and downformation and resilient flaps at opposite sides of said body portion arranged transversely to normally bear againstsaid body portion, said body portion having openings and saidflaps having prongs projecting through said openings into said body portion.

7. A fastener. of the kind described formed of an elongated piece of material bent upon itself between its ends to form an elongated loop with one side thereof formed by the ends of said material overlapping, said overlapping portions having registered openings therein, an opening at the opposite side of said loop, and resilient flaps extending from the edge of the material at one side of the loop and being curved and directed downwardly at opposite sides of the loop, said flaps having prongs extending through the openings of said body portion.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

J OSEPII FAVATA, J R. 

